Following a tragic 2016, Surfer Blood’s John Paul Pitts is learning to chill out. For many people in the United States, 2016 was a shit year. For John Paul Pitts, frontman and vocalist of Surfer Blood, it was an especially rough 12 months. Last May, founding band member and guitarist…
Much like Super Bowl Sunday (and the Hangover Monday that follows), April 20 — or 4/20 — has become an unofficial holiday. Employees will call in sick and students will skip classes. It’s a national day of stoned joy resulting from the now-mainstream embrace of those three simple numbers: 4, 2, and 0.
Lake Worth’s Everymen is a difficult band to pin down. Their sound is an amalgamation of attitudes and instruments that can best be described as “folk-punk” but that transcends both of those genres. It’s a sound they’ve tirelessly shared on tour with the rest of the nation, and even Europe, for years.
It finally happened, and it took only five years. Tortuga Music Festival, selling out once again, set a record for attendance this past weekend. More than 100,000 people filed through the gates of the country-music beach party. Held annually on Fort Lauderdale Beach since its inception in 2013, the fest this year featured headliners Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, and Kenny Chesney. In short, Tortuga is big.
It is a bizarre experience for anyone visiting the Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood these days. The mammoth entertainment and gaming property is undergoing an equally massive facelift that, at the moment, has left much of the property a desolate landscape. Gone…
Bilingual comic Javi Carrion has had an interesting life, to say the least. The Puerto Rican-born Miamian is a veteran of the South Florida comedy scene, fitting gigs in between working for an electronics company and raising his 9-year-old daughter. He’s set to tape a half-hour special, Miami Made Me, April 8 at the Open Stage Club.
Since the early ’90s, South Florida has been a hotbed for DJs and electronic music. Hip-hop and rock are, arguably, tied for second place in the region’s musical popularity contest. But the politically bluer part of the Sunshine State is also home to an overwhelming number of country music fans…
Even if a joke doesn’t contain profanity, that hardly prohibits it from being cruel or offensive. Take this one-liner from British comedian Jimmy Carr: “A big girl once came up to me after a show and said, ‘I think you’re fatist.’ I said, ‘No. I think you’re fattest.’”
In 2006, “Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit” catapulted Dutch house producer Fedde Le Grand into the spotlight. Beyond that, it helped revive a flagging industry and is commonly regarded as one of the crucial tracks of the rebirth of dance music. This past Sunday, Le Grand delivered one of the best headlining sets at Ultra Music Festival 2017.
Currently, 18 of the first 30 songs listed on Billboard’s Hot 100 are electronic, hip-hop, or a style that contains some element of either. This year, the 19th edition of Ultra Music Festival was a reflection of that trend. The main stage, headlined by the biggest names in EDM — DJ Snake, David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, etc. — drew the largest crowds.
Sunday night, Ultra Music Festival let downtown know that its three-day party was over with a fireworks display at the end of DJ Snake’s set on the main stage. Condo dwellers breathed a sigh of relief knowing they would finally be free once again to roam the city.
British standup comedian Jimmy Carr is, by his own admission, “rude, crude, and offensive.” His sense of humor certainly isn’t for everyone. However, for those who enjoy properly dirty jokes, Carr is a virtuoso. He combines the razor-sharp barbs of a roastmaster, the concise one-liner genius of Mitch Hedburg, and the filthy vocabulary of Louis C.K. with a wit as quick as that kid in elementary school who was always ready with a devastating “yo’ mama” joke.
Though you might want to attend Radiohead at the American Airlines Arena, tickets cost more than your first-born. So we turn our attention to another act. Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave band that has made a career out of covering pop songs set to bossa nova grooves, returns to Miami for the first time in more than ten years.
This time of year is supposed to be Miami’s dry season. That definitely wasn’t the case the second day of Ultra Music Festival 2017. Gray clouds hung over Bayfront Park and eventually drenched the festival. However, it wasn’t exactly like last year’s storm. In 2016, several performances were scrapped. This year, the show went on.
Thanks to Ultra Music Festival, the rest of the world gets to thaw out in the Magic City while jerking their bodies to the latest EDM hits. It’s becoming a spring equinox celebration of sorts — just with a lot of more neon and very little clothing. Friday launched the…
Still alive? Still ready to rage? Day One of Ultra Music Festival 2017 is history lying beneath a layer of mud and wood chips on the grounds of Bayfront Park. Oh my, but is there a laundry list of Miami Music Week events within and without on this (hopefully) less…
Martial arts is the sort of hobby world-famous DJs might dabble in because they can. Maybe it’s just a narcissistic exercise in looking cool, tucked in between fist-pumping all-night ragers and early-afternoon orgies spent in Jacuzzis with a gaggle of supermodels. Unless that world-famous DJ is Laidback Luke, who is, long story short, a certified badass.
Today is the day. Ultra 2017 is upon us, and our bodies are ready. One of the luxuries of a metropolis like Miami hosting an internationally revered festival such as Ultra is that the music bleeds into all the city’s nooks and crannies. The have-nots — those without tickets to Ultra — can still be the haves because so many of the headliners throw their own parties.
There’s a very simple reason that Miami Music Week is world-renowned: The quality and quantity of parties dotting the city’s landscape are unparalleled. We’re only a day away from the 2017 edition of Ultra Music Festival, but the road to Bayfront Park is littered with side streets leading to sick parties.
Damian Lazarus throws the best parties. That isn’t an exaggeration. And as evidenced by his staying power, it’s hardly even an opinion. Now in its 12th year, Get Lost is a 24-hour techno party and the longest-running underground event during Miami Music Week. It will begin at 5 a.m. Saturday, March 25, and wrap up at 5 a.m. the next day.
Shit just got real, people. Your options for ditching work and partying all day have tripled in the span of 24 hours, and New Times is here to help sort it out. Offering everything from big names at giant clubs to up-and-comers at smaller gigs, Miami Music Week is in full swing today.
The best things to do Tuesday during Miami Music Week.
